Tag: Massachusetts

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    Honoring black history in the Berkshires

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    Group aims to transform former church into visitor, cultural center Beth Carlson and Wray Gunn Sr. stand in front of the former Clinton A.M.E. Zion Church in Great Barrington. Carlson and Gunn both serve on the board of a 2-year-old nonprofit group that hopes to transform the building into a visitor and cultural center celebrating… read more

    Honoring black history in the Berkshires
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    Election 2018: Results from three states

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      MASSACHUSETTS   GOVERNOR AND LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR* Charles Baker and Karyn E. Polito (R) 1,781,341 (66.8%) Jay Gonzalez and Quentin Palfrey (D) ….. 885,770 (33.2%)   U.S. SENATORShiva Ayyadurai (i) …………………………………… 91,710 (3.4%)Geoff Diehl (R) ……………………………………. 979,210 (36.2%)* Elizabeth A. Warren (D)…………………. 1,633,371 (60.4%)   ATTORNEY GENERAL * Maura Healey (D) …………………………. 1,874,209 (70.0%)James R.… read more

    Election 2018: Results from three states
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    Celebrating light in a season of darkness

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    Exhibit explores traditions through artwork from children’s holiday books “Cultural Traditions: A Holiday Celebration,” now on exhibit at the Norman Rockwell Museum, includes Uri Shulevitz’s illustation from “Dusk” (2013), above, and Brian Pinkney’s images for the book “Seven Candles for Kwanzaa,” right. Courtesy Norman Rockwell Museum/Copyright Uri Shulevitz   By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.People… read more

    Celebrating light in a season of darkness
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    In the Berkshires, preparing for legal marijuana sales

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    Mass. retailers get set for legal marijuana sales, raising questions for N.Y., Vermont Theory Wellness opened the Berkshires’ first medical marijuana dispensary, above, in Great Barrington two years ago. Now it’s one of the first four retailers in Berkshire County that are expected to begin selling to anyone over 21 after the state’s voters backed… read more

    In the Berkshires, preparing for legal marijuana sales
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    School radio station plans for rebirth

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    Pittsfield’s WTBR, begun as school project, will have broader mission Shawn Serre, the executive director of Pittsfield Community Television, shows off the new home of radio station WTBR-89.7 FM, which temporarily suspended broadcasts in June. Susan Sabino photo   By JOHN TOWNESContributing writer PITTSFIELD, Mass. A local FM radio station that got started in 1969… read more

    School radio station plans for rebirth
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    Election 2018: A preview of local ballots

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    Here are the candidates and referendum questions on ballots for the Nov. 6 federal and state elections across the region. Because of space limitations, uncontested races are not included. A guide to political party abbreviations is at right. Incumbents are marked with an asterisk (*). Polls are open on Election Day from 7 a.m. to… read more

    Election 2018: A preview of local ballots
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    Images from across a spectrum

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    Keavy Handley-Byrne’s photograph “Alice Cuts My Hair” (2018) is among 38 works by contemporary artists in the exhibit “Spectrum: Exploring Gender Identification,” which runs through Nov. 18 at Gallery 51 in North Adams. courtesy Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts/Gallery 51   By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer NORTH ADAMS, Mass.A father sits at his desk, holding his… read more

    Images from across a spectrum
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    As midterm vote nears, take it down a notch

    As this issue goes to press, the national news is focused on the bitter battle over a Supreme Court nomination. We’re in a week of limbo between the dramatic testimony of Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh and the completion of a highly anticipated but limited FBI investigation into the allegations against Kavanaugh. Even by… read more

    As midterm vote nears, take it down a notch
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    From blue Berkshires, a push for Faso’s defeat

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    Mass. activists target N.Y. congressman in ad campaign A billboard along Route 20 west of New Lebanon, N.Y., this summer cast U.S. Rep. John Faso, R-Kinderhook, as Pinocchio for his vote last year on health care reform. The ad was paid for by the Catskills Freedom Network, a group organized by activists from across the… read more

    From blue Berkshires, a push for Faso’s defeat
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    Strengthening a city in transition

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    Pittsfield project fosters new ties in ‘civic infrastructure’ Alisa Costa is the director of Working Cities Pittsfield, a grant-funded initiative that seeks to bring together local people from a wide range of backgrounds in helping the former industrial city to reinvent itself. Susan Sabino photo   By JOHN TOWNESContributing writer PITTSFIELD, Mass. When researchers for… read more

    Strengthening a city in transition